ABSTRACT

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts to establish, maintain, disrupt or transform the cargo-mobility systems which have grown so dramatically in scale and significance in recent decades. 

chapter 1|16 pages

Moving cargos

chapter 2|18 pages

Distribution centers as distributed places

Mobility, infrastructure and truck traffic

chapter 3|13 pages

Maritime cargomobilities

The impossibilities of representation

chapter 4|17 pages

A city that exports air

Containers, traffic and logistics in Sydney's intermodal network and beyond

chapter 5|22 pages

Smuggling mobilities

Parasitic relations, and the aporetic openness of the shipping container

chapter 6|19 pages

The new zones of circulation

On the production and securitisation of maritime frontiers in West Africa

chapter 7|19 pages

Immobilising and containing

Entrapment in the container economy

chapter 9|14 pages

Dangerous cargo and uneven toxic risks

Petrochemicals in the port of New Orleans

chapter 10|17 pages

Air cargo mobilities

Past, present and future

chapter 11|19 pages

Oil on the move

chapter 12|17 pages

Digital cargo

3D printing for development at the ‘bottom of the pyramid'